...t Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army.
He was wounded three times, twice at John's Island and once at Olustree, where his horse was shot from under him.
For some time he was in command at Florence, S. C. , where he built a stockade for Federal prisoners and had charge of about 25,000.
He made many friends among the captives for his humane and kind treatment of them, and on the fall of Savannah, wher...